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I always used custom partitioning. My partition setup is so complex that even I have trouble making sense of it some time, so I don't even let the program try .

My big big problem with this one is that resizing should be a custom/advanced option. Any other installer I have seen, resizing is not done by default -- it is available if you choose "custom".

Gotta admit tho, ubuntu has got me back into gnome. Now my new video card has eliminated the possibility of virtual sized desktops*, and I am doing all this coding and scripting anyway, etc, the appeal of fvwm2 (world's most configurable window manager!) is starting to thin. Maybe

Wrong -- I learned this when seetxt went into distribution, because the packager complained I was numbering my releases like this:

0.5
0.51
0.52
0.6

If you pay closer attention, you will notice that is not how *nix software works. It should be
0.5
0.5.1
0.6
That means x.10 is after x.9. Everything follows this convention, including Ubuntu releases. So 9.1 != 9.10 != 9.100

*I imagine video cards are the reason that trend is dying out, because it is really really functional, where it works. Hardware manufacturers probably never gave it serious consideration because it was never done in Windows, so there was no need to support it, unix hardware is it's own realm, and by the time anyone at MS might have thought of implementing it, there was too much "high end" PC hardware that wouldn't.

Wrong -- I learned this when seetxt went into distribution, because the packager complained I was numbering my releases like this:

0.5
0.51
0.52
0.6

If you pay closer attention, you will notice that is not how *nix software works. It should be
0.5
0.5.1
0.6
That means x.10 is after x.9. Everything follows this convention, including Ubuntu releases. So 9.1 != 9.10 != 9.100

Okay, but the way Ubuntu uses the convention it doesn't make any difference when talking about it. They generally have a zero release, and a ten release, for each version unit. They don't use extra decimal places, if they did, then it would matter. Since they don't, you can't say 9.1 != 9.10 because without versioning with extra decimals 9.10 could be 9.1.0. Or 9.100 could be 9.10.0. We don't know, because they simply don't use them, because they don't need them the way they do it. Learn something new every day.

I really have no idea what you are talking about. The previous Ubuntu release was 9.04.

9.1 > 9.04
9.10 > 9.04

Okay, I thought you were being "tongue in cheek funny". Trust me on this one. Honest. Maybe they are being tongue in cheek about it, but I'm telling you from experience: the debian packagers insist on that method of sequencing, and one of their concerns is that the packages end up downstream, in freeBSD and Ubuntu, and this is the method all their maintainers have agreed upon, I believe that is important if you consider that sometimes automation may be involved keeping things organized, so x.14must always be considered a later version than x.8. And no one needs some fool getting clever with the distro staffers. That's linux.

It is nine point ten, not nine point one. You could say "one oh" and "oh four".

Okay, but the way Ubuntu uses the convention it doesn't make any difference when talking about it. They generally have a zero release, and a ten release, for each version unit. They don't use extra decimal places, if they did, then it would matter. Since they don't, you can't say 9.1 != 9.10 because without versioning with extra decimals 9.10 could be 9.1.0. Or 9.100 could be 9.10.0. We don't know, because they simply don't use them, because they don't need them the way they do it.

Heheh, but cyberfish's explanation is correct. If Ubuntu 9.1 existed, it would have been released in January 2009, and would certainly not be the same as Ubuntu 9.10.

I get maybe two dozen requests for help with some sort of programming or design problem every day. Most have more sense than to send me hundreds of lines of code. If they do, I ask them to find the smallest example that exhibits the problem and send me that. Mostly, they then find the error themselves. "Finding the smallest program that demonstrates the error" is a powerful debugging tool.

Did not know that, lol. In that case what you said makes sense. I noticed they release every six months, and 10 - 4 = 6, and figured those were associated but didn't clue into the months (I barely ever know what day it is ).

The 10-4 thing is the reason why I moved on to better things, like ArchLinux, as soon as it became possible for me to do. Let's face it, it's stupid to enforce on yourself a fixed release date. Not only you'll fail eventually, but also it makes the whole thing look time-based instead of feature-based.

If Ubuntu was a paying OS, I wouldn't notice the difference.

edit: BTW, I know it's totally OT and i'm hijacking the thread, but did you guys know google launched a free public DNS service? How about that for yet another way for them to map our web usage? Do no evil, or do it with all the best of intentions?

How about that for yet another way for them to map our web usage? Do no evil, or do it with all the best of intentions?

Exactly my thoughts as I visited some pr0nographic world wide websites earlier. Ha ha! Yet another way for Google to track me. It must be hilarious watching that screen they got at their lounge showing all the latest searches. Now they can watch all the latest website visits (well, they've been doing that since Google Toolbar and Google Chrome and all that other ........ I'm sure).

They're public DNS is 8.8.8.8. I don't know if that's showing off or what, lol. OpenDNS is.. 208.67.222.222. Show offs shoulda used 6.6.6.0 or 6.9.6.9 or 1.1.1.1 or 1.0.0.0 unless it's reserved.